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Morris' research has turned up informal Harvard claims to the land, and Vellucci said yesterday that he had heard similar verbal assertions. However, no Harvard administrator has ever claimed in writing that the land belonged to the University...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Harvard Overpass Ownership Questioned | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...average combined score on the two-part exam was 906--475 on the math section, 431 on the verbal--unchanged from the previous year, according to the College Board, which administers the test. The test is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 1600 being a perfect combined score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

South Dakota, where only three percent of seniors take the test, posted the highest average combined score of 1098--567 math, 531 verbal. South Carolina had the lowest average--431 math, 395 verbal, 826 combined--but 49 percent took the exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Kennedy also had the luxury of running an entirely positive campaign until the very last days of the race. His opponents undermined and occasionally eliminated each other throughout the spring. However, despite "Young Joe's" frequent verbal slips, they shied away from criticizing the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: How Joe Kennedy Got the Dems' Nod | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...fifth collection of short stories, Alice Munro, 55, continues to buck the genre's fashionable trend toward miniaturization and microplots. Her characters stubbornly refuse to trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amplitudes the Progress of Love | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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